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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992“The Planet that Wasn’t” originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1975)
- Luck
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.
Marcus Aurelius121–180
- Change
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations
Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book X, 11
- Change
- Thinking
Remember, that to change thy mind upon occasion, and to follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous, as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Eighth BookIn context
- Change
- Wisdom
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
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- Nature
It is the nature of human institutions to degenerate, to lose their vitality, and decay, and the first sign of decay is the loss of flexibility and oblivion of the essential spirit in which they were conceived.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950India’s Rebirth, 22 September 1907
- Change
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Change
- Time
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
- Men
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
- Change
- Wisdom
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Often credited to Aristotle
Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
- Change
- Character
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker1925–2019“The Fact About Progress,” The New York Times (1970-02-24)
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